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Snowball Factory Raises Funding

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Beverly Hills-based The Snowball Factory , the developer of Awe.sm , a URL shortener for domains, and tweetpo.st , software for updating Facebook from Twitter, has raised $562,600 in an equity funding round, according to a regulatory filing from the firm Tuesday. Source of the funding was not disclosed. Product Manager at Yahoo!

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RealPractice Gets New Funding, Execs

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Irvine-based RealPractice , a developer of software used by law firms to manage their practices, said today that it has raised a new round of funding and appointed a new executive team. Amount of the funding was not disclosed. New was most recently at Ripple Networks, and also served at Yahoo. READ MORE>>.

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CapLinked Raises New Funding

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Jackson and Christopher Grey, announced this morning that it has scored a new, Series A funding round, worth $1.6M. The firm said the funding brings its total raised to $2.5M. The new funding included FF Angel, Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups, Peter Thiel , Andrej Henkler , and Alexsis de Raadt-St. READ MORE>>.

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When Should Technical Founders Become CEO?

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Somehow in a world of rapid change Mark had been able to right his ship much faster than the highly bureaucratic organizations that places like Google, Yahoo! It seemed that Google was being out innovated by another Silicon Valley technical leader, Mark Zuckerberg. and Microsoft had become.

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Interview with William Chow, Mobophiles

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But, our software also supports a large number of other web applications--for example, things like Google Maps, Yahoo News, or even content sites. How is the company funded? Tags: entrepreneur access offline service software saas mobophiles startup interview chow william. Can you talk about your background and team?

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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GRP has just recently closed on a new $200M fund, and Mark has been one of the more active venture capitalists in the Los Angeles area in recent months. billion to Yahoo, we did CitySearch, we invested in the largest travel site in Europe, called LastMinute.com, and also CyberSource--a number of very early stage, Internet companies.

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TechZulu Presents: The Annual Startup Forecast

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Topics of discussion will be Wearables Technology, Bitcoin, SaaS, Cloud, Mobile, Gaming, Social Markets, what surprises are coming for 2014, creating value with your company, hiring problem solvers, and building a sensible businesses. MusicMatch was acquired by Yahoo! There will be plenty of FREE food and drinks!

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